RW632 - Heroes Rewatch S03E24-25 - I Am Invisible

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom know who they are and fight to stay that way as they discuss season 3 episodes 24 & 25, I Am Sylar and An Invisible Tread.

Chapter Eleven 'I Am Sylar':

Volume: Four

Written by: Adam Armus & Kay Foster

Directed by: Allan Arkush

Original airdate: April 20, 2009

 

Synopsis: 

Sylar wakes up in Agent Taub’s apartment, an agent whose life Sylar took over on Danko’s suggestion in order to work with him freely. However, Sylar finds himself going to bed as himself and waking up as Taub, his shapeshifting out of his control, even going so far as to find extra teeth in his mouth. 

Matt, having come up with a plan, decides to head home to Janice with Baby Matt, but Hiro and Ando try to convince him that he needs to help stop Danko. Matt tells them that he wants to be a part of his baby’s life and they understand, letting him go, deciding themselves to go to building 26. Matt refuses to give them the address, telling them of the consequences of going there. The two Matt’s leave, as Hiro comes up with a new plan to find Building 26.

Danko finds Sylar and warns him that he has to stop being Sylar, due to his agents spotting Sylar on security cams throughout the city. Sylar tells him how he is losing himself due to the shapeshifting, refusing to stay as Taub because he is a nothing. Danko explains that if he keeps becoming Sylar, he will be forced to hunt him down, leaving Sylar no choice to shapeshift back into Taub. As Danko leaves satisfied, Sylar scratches I AM SYLAR into his arm before it quickly disappears, healing. 

A man named Tom who has the power to disintegrate objects receives a text from Rebel telling him to get out and is further surprised when Sylar appears in his home. Sylar explains how he is like Tom, having an ability, and plays on the man’s fear, having him show him his ability. Finding it interesting, he decides to kill Tom and take his power, using Tom’s blood to write I AM SYLAR on the walls. As Agents bust in, Sylar shifts to Taub and joins the team.

Danko and Sylar talk and he reiterates that Sylar needs to stay dead but Sylar continues to suffer from his identity crisis. Danko tells him to find something that he can anchor himself to, to remind him who he is, showing him a watch his father gave him years ago that helps him. Sylar can easily tell the watch is running fast, telling Danko that THAT is actually his true ability.

Hiro and Ando decide to break into Mr. Isaac’s apartment and use Ando as bait in order to find Building 26 but Ando is not in agreement, especially given Hiro continues to not take himself seriously as a partner. The agents quickly burst in and fire at them but Hiro stops time. Since he was touching Ando as well, he is also able to move around in the frozen time. The two argue more about the plan, but in the end, Hiro allows Ando to be shot with the tranquilizers while Hiro takes the uniform of one of the agents to go undercover as they drive Ando back to their base. On the way, Hiro stops time in order to turn off the gas that is keeping Ando asleep, telling him to just pretend to be asleep while they return to Building 26. However when he starts time again, another agent notices Hiro’s glasses and goes to tase him but Ando uses his power to subdue all the agents. Taking a phone from the pocket of one of the agents, they use the GPS to find Building 26.

Sylar meanwhile has used his abilities to get all materials and evidence relating to the unsolved death of his mother and begins shapeshifting into her and back to himself again and again in order to try and resolve his identity crisis, trying to work it out with “her” about how he murdered her and how he feels unloved and alone.

Danko shows up and tells him they found Rebel based on information Sylar retrieved from Tom earlier, and they head out  to find him. Sylar goes rogue and confronts Micah who tells Sylar that he can help him, that he isn’t alone, that all people with abilities are connected. Sylar decides to help him, running away as Micah and drawing the agents away while the real Micah escapes. Sylar/Micah allows himself to be shot and falls into the water and disappears. Sylar then shape-shifts back to himself, explaining that he didn’t take the kid’s power because he has too many powers to deal with as is. Danko says they couldn’t find a body but Sylar says dead is dead.

Micah later witnesses Sylar’s identity crisis continuing, as he tells him that Sylar could make a difference with his abilities, by turning into Nathan Petrelli and talking to the president but Sylar tells him to leave before he kills him. He then takes on Micah’s idea and goes to Nathan’s office, learning all about Nathan’s memories by touching his things in his office, an ability he got while he was incarcerated on Level 5 with Angela. While there, he begins having another identity crisis moment as he talks with his mother again, and gets the idea to be anything he wants, including the president, shapeshifting into Nathan.

Matt reunites with Janice and tells her he wants to be in his baby’s life, but he then hears that agents are nearby. He has her pack so that they can get away, but Matt realizes that he can’t go, that he needs to go back and help Hiro and Ando and the others fight back. As agents storm the building, Matt uses his powers to hide them from the perception, keeping them safe.

Elsewhere, Mohinder continues looking at the reel to reel tape he received, searching for answers as to his fathers work at Coyote Sands, but all he finds are a group of agents storming the building, and again, surprise surprise, they capture him.

Having found Building 26, Hiro and Ando are ready to go in but Hiro finally starts to trust Ando as a full partner, telling him so. Their partnership renewed, Hiro begins to freeze time, but suddenly suffers a great headache and a nosebleed.

Nathan returns to his office and is confronted by Sylar, disguised as him. They verbally spar before Sylar decides to cut open his head. Danko shows up and tases the real Nathan, explaining that since he is a senator, they have to be careful about how they do things with him. As Sylar turns away to shapeshifts into Taub, on Danko’s insistence since they are going to go and capture more specials, Danko stabs him in the back of his neck and he falls to the floor. Surprisingly, Sylar rises up and pulls the blade out of his neck, telling Danko that it hurts.

Back-issues:

Clint Howard was Tom. Brother of Happy Days actor turned mega director Ron Howard, he started his career in the Andy Griffith Show with his brother who played Opie. His first starring role was in the series Gentle Ben (a boy and his bear). He has had a unique five-generation Star Trek run, including episodes in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise, all the way to Star Trek: The Original Series. He’s a prolific character actor in films including Frost/Nixon, Apollo 13, the Austin Powers trilogy, The Waterboy, The Rocketeer, Tango and Cash, and Disney's The Jungle Book, along with hundreds of other titles through his 60 years of acting.

Chapter Twelve 'An Invisible Tread':

Volume: Four

Written by: Tim Kring

Directed by: Greg Beeman

Original airdate: April 27, 2009

 

Synopsis: 

Angela awakens as she, Bennet and Claire drive past a construction site. She tells them Nathan is in trouble and Bennet, recognizing that agents are going to be waiting for them, stops the car and sends Angela and Claire off on their own to find Nathan. Benent continues driving and is eventually taken into custody by the agents.

Sylar tells Danko that shapeshifting changes everything about him, and so he managed to move his off switch from the back of his head. When Danko tells him that he won’t let Sylar get close to the president, Sylar shape shifts to Danko, kills some agents, and then shape shifts to Taub, joining the other agents in arresting Danko as a killer. He soon finds himself in a cell with Bennet as the two talk about how they need to deal with this, forming a temporary partnership to escape.

Angela sends Claire to find Nathan while she goes to resolve another dream, finding Matt Parkman. Claire finds Nathan, not realizing it’s Sylar, due to Sylar using his object history ability to convince her that he is the real one. Together they go to meet the president. Once inside and being introduced to Nathan’s old friend Liam, who is the President’s Chief of Staff. Nathan/Sylar goes to sign in and Claire notices that he signs with his left hand instead of right, but he plays it off.

Ando tells Hiro they don’t need to go into the building but Hiro shakes off his problem, knowing he has to stop time, despite Ando’s warnings that it could kill him. With time stopped they begin searching the building, opening doors and checking, leaving open the door to Bennet and Danko’s cell, before finally finding the right one. They begin replacing the captured and sedated specials with the agents as Ando notices Hiro’s ear bleeding. As time restarts, Hiro stumbles and they ask Mohinder to help figure out what is wrong with him. Mohinder tells him he is still human and his body seems to be rejecting his ability and shouldn’t use his ability anymore.

Danko and Bennet find the prisoners gone and the agents sedated. Danko gets out heavy duty tranquilizers to capture Sylar but instead goes to inject Bennett with it. Hiro stops time and saves him, but starts to suffer from a nosebleed before collapsing. Bennet calls Claire, and she answers but soon reveals that it is Sylar shapeshifts into Claire before hanging up. Sylar then begins going full creeper on Claire, stroking her hair and plying her with wine, telling her that she could be his first First Lady or they could just continue to fight throughout time since neither of them can die.

Peter arrives to find Nathan and the two head off to try and stop Sylar. As they arrive, Liam shows up as they realize that Nathan was already signed in. Nathan reveals his powers to Liam, telling him that they are there to stop a dangerous man, giving him a powerful speech, and Liam lets them through. They arrive at Sylar/Nathan’s suite and see Claire come crashing through the door. The two fly into the suite and begin an epic battle, using their powers against Sylar, in a glorious moment that happens entirely behind closed doors. 

As the smoke clears, Claire finds Peter beaten but still able to stand. Peter tells her that Sylar and Nathan flew out of the window, and they leave to go find them. A second later, Sylar and Nathan fly BACK into the room, and Sylar slices Nathan’s neck, killing him as he bleeds out. Bennet finds Peter and Claire as Peter reveals that he managed to touch Sylar and copy his power.

Angela finds Matt but he is adamant he needs to go stop Danko, but Angela is insistent that he come with her to save Nathan. Eventually he acquiesces and goes with her. Using Matt’s powers they get into the suite and find him dead as Angela screams in mourning. 

Sylar/Nathan heads to the press conference where the president is being ushered away with his security. Sylar/Nathan takes Liam and subdues him, taking over as him and joining the president in his security detail and ultimately his escape car. Sylar/Nathan goes to shake hands with the president, but finds himself suddenly shifting through different faces, as the president shape-shifts to reveal that he is actually Peter. Peter hits Sylar with a heavy tranquilizer, and knocks him out.

Angela and Bennet convince Matt to use his powers to rewrite Sylar’s brain into believing himself to be Nathan Petrelli, reasoning that if the world finds out a person with abilities killed a US Senator, there will end up being a thousand Danko’s out there hunting them down. Matt proceeds to do as they ask as Sylar’s past is taken away, erased, and replaced with Nathan’s. As he awakens and shifts into Nathan, Nathan/Sylar truly believes himself to be Nathan Petrelli. Using the body of the original shapeshifter, they burn the body as Claire, Peter, Ando, and Hiro watch, thankful that Sylar is truly dead now, not knowing the ruse taking place. Ando and Hiro decide to go home, Matt returns to Janice, and Peter, Nathan, Angela and Bennet start up a new Company, with full funding by the president.

Elsewhere, a former Building 26 agent returns home to find his sink overflowing, when suddenly a familiar face appears from the water, telling him he is number 4. The next morning Nathan reads about a 4th mysterious drowning victim as Angela comes in to see him, telling him she hasn’t heard from in weeks. He says he hasn’t felt like himself lately, and notices a clock on the mantle that he goes to and says seems to be running fast. He fixes the clock’s hands and then, seemingly back to a normal Nathan, starts to talk about their plans for lunch as Angela looks on, worried.

Back-issues:

Liam was Michael B. Silver and he’s had a variety of recurring roles in shows like NYPD Blue and Royal Pains, as well as a starring role in Instinct (A former CIA operative who has since built a "normal" life as a gifted professor and writer is pulled back into his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer on the loose).

Heroes EU:

One Good Hero

Rescuing Nathan.

The Natural Order of Things

A moment of reflection.

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RW631 - Heroes Rewatch S03E22-23 - Turn and Face 1961

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom are on a road trip to dig up the past as they discuss season 3 episodes 22 & 23, Turn and Face the Strange and 1961.

Chapter Nine 'Turn and Face the Strange':

Volume: Four

Written by: Rob Fresco & Mark Verheiden

Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc

Original airdate: April 6, 2009

 

Synopsis: 

Bennet inspects Sylar’s dead body again, with Danko asking him if he ever really wanted to really catch Sylar, given how quickly he managed to catch the killer as opposed to Bennet. Sandra shows up and tells Bennet that she is looking for Claire, but Bennet is convinced that the body he saw isn’t Sylar, unable to focus on Sandra’s concerns. 

Danko leaves Bennet and Sandra, heading to a restroom where he changes, revealing Sylar, and telling the real Danko that he wants to destroy Bennet.

Ando and Hiro are on their mission to reunite Matt Parkman with his son, but the car stops when Toddler Touch and Go starts crying. They manage to hitch a ride with a big rig driver, but again, when the baby cries, the truck completely shuts down. Returning to their car, they realize that by Ando making a funny face, he can make baby Matt Parkman laugh and thus, the car can start working again. They continue their journey after talking with Mohinder on the phone who tells them that Matt is going down a dangerous path, giving them Matt’s last known location. 

Mohinder, determined to leave for India, and failing to stop Matt from going through with a revenge plot against Danko, returns to his old apartment, finding all of his research gone, collected by the Company. The landlord tells him about some research Chandra had in the basement storage, and Mohinder studies it and discovers the existence of a place called Coyote Sands, a place that all roads concerning abilities seemingly lead to.

Matt goes to find Danko and plants a thought in his head that someone he knows is in danger and to go to them. Matt follows him and finds that Danko has a girlfriend/personal escort named Elena who believes that Danko, known to her as Jakob, will one day leave his wife and kids and be with her only. After Danko leaves, Matt enters her house and while he had planned to kill her as revenge, he tells her all about Danko and his true life. With Matt’s help they go to Danko’s place and Elena confronts him, with Matt forcing him to reveal everything to her. Matt realizes that Danko seemingly does care for her, but he actually doesn’t care if Matt shoots her, calling his bluff. Matt can’t bring himself to do so and drops the gun, allowing Danko to grab his gun and shoot Matt. Luckily, Hiro arrives and stops time, getting Matt safely away. Matt is not ready for Hiro’s pep talk about fighting the good fight, but then he is introduced to his son and finds himself renewed.

Later, Bennet chases down Sylar’s dead body which was scheduled for cremation. Instead he removes the metal spike from the back of Sylar’s head and sends it off to be analyzed. Bennet is once again met by Sandra at his apartment, and she tells him she is filing for divorce, telling him she can’t trust him anymore and doesn’t love him. She leaves, with Bennet shocked, but as she turns the corner, she reveals that it is once again Sylar as he shape shifts back to himself again.

Bennet begins checking the divorce papers and finds that Sandra’s signatures don’t match. Not only that, the DNA results come back and show they belong to James Martin, the shapeshifter. Bennet confronts Sandra, accusing her of being Sylar, roughing her up as she tries to deny him, but Bennet is too far gone by now. Once she receives a call from Lyle asking about Mr. Muggles, Bennet realizes that this is actually his wife but she demands he leaves, frightened by what Bennet has just done to her.

Bennet leaves and goes to Danko, pretending to be Sylar, but quickly holds him at gunpoint, asking to know where Sylar is. They wait for Sylar to return from masquerading as a soldier capturing more people with abilities, and Bennet holds the soldier up at gunpoint. He shoots the soldier to prove that it’s Sylar, but the soldier bleeds out, and Danko pronounces him dead. Bennet takes off, escaping the building and running away. The dead soldier then suddenly gets up, revealing that it actually was Sylar all along. Bennet, with no where else to go, heads to the place Angela called him about earlier, Coyote Sands.

Angela, Peter, Nathan, and Claire rendezvous at Coyote Sands. Angela tells them to dig, that they deserve the whole story, eventually unearthing a buried skeleton with a bullet hole in the center of their skull. As Bennet arrives to join them, they keep digging, uncovering more and more skeletons.

Back-issues:

The truck driver was played by Kenneth Choi, best known as Howard Chimney Han on the currently running show 9-1-1 where he’s a lead. He was also a lead cast member in the show Allegiance (a rookie CIA analyst doesn't know that members of his family are part of a Russian sleeper cell), and Ironside (centers on Robert T. Ironside, a tough, sexy and acerbic police detective relegated to a wheelchair after a shooting who is hardly limited by his disability as he pushes and prods his hand-picked team to solve the most difficult cases). He also had a recurring role in The Last Man On Earth (almost two years after a virus wiped out most of the human race, Phil Miller only wishes for some company, but soon gets more than he bargained for when that company shows up in the form of other survivors), and American Crime Story. He was also Principal Morita in Spider-man: Homecoming.

Steve Donner, the soldier, was played by Ned Vaughn. He’s a character actor with credits in movies and TV shows such as The Hunt For Red October, Rush Hour, Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, Boston Legal, Frost/Nixon, 24, Beach Boys: An American Family, Jag, Crossing Jordan, Walker: Texas Ranger, Star Trek: The Next Generation and more recently MaXXXine (in 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past).

Chapter Ten '1961':

Volume: Four

Written by: Aron Eli Coleite

Directed by: Adam Kane

Original airdate: April 13, 2009

 

Synopsis:

Peter, Nathan, Bennet, and Claire continue to dig up body after body with Peter questioning why they are even doing so, asking his mother what they’re doing.

Angela thinks back to her past when she arrived at Coyote Sands with her sister Alice and their parents, as well as other families and their children, thinking that they could be cured of her powers here, having been rounded up by the government and told exactly that.

The two quickly meet a young Charles Deveuax, Daniel Linderman, and Bobby Bishop who awkwardly flirt with Angela. Alice, not feeling comfortable, wants to leave but Angela assures her sister that she needs to be there and needs her support, promising that she in turn will always be there for her, while outside, the rainstorm stops, and the sun comes out.

Back in the present, Angela tells them all about how she was able to get away from this place as a child but everyone else, including her family, died. Because of her dream, she felt she had to come here and find some piece of her sister in order to put her to rest. She explains that this was where The Company started and now that it has fallen, they need to get the secrets hidden again. Peter refuses to take part in kidnappings, killings, and mind wiping in order to become a new company and leaves with Nathan going after him, talking with him in a diner. Peter refuses to budge, remaining unforgiving of Nathan, reminding him of how selfish Nathan has always been, even as children.

In 1961, Linderman demonstrates his ability to Angela while Deveuax tells her that the place they are in is the same as the Nazi concentration camps or the Japanese internment camps. As Alice awakens and interrupts Angela and the boys, she ushers her sister back to bed where Alice tells her sister that she thinks she can control the weather, relating a childhood story about how a hailstorm smashed their dad’s car after Alice got mad at him, as outside their window, snow starts to fall. 

Claire and Angela have a bonding moment about how Claire is so strong facing such adversity when they are interrupted by a sudden giant storm. Angela believes it to be Alice and calls out to her but Claire drags her back inside. Bennet gets trapped in the storm and then attacked by Mohinder who holds him up against the wall, fearing that he is after him, but Bennet reveals the truth about how he was trying to work against Danko. Mohinder reveals that his father was a doctor in this camp and that he came to figure out what he was doing here. 

Back in the past, Chandra talks with Angela and gauges her powers, with Angela telling him that she has seen how he will kill everyone here, even if just by being involved in this project and not directly. Suresh assures her everything will be fine and prepares a large needle, telling her that it won’t hurt a bit.

Back in the present, Angela runs out into the storm to find her sister but when Claire chases after her, the storm suddenly abates and Angela is gone. Returning to camp, Nathan and Peter, along with Bennet and Mohinder begin searching for her.

In 1961, Deveuax tells Angela that the time has come to make their escape, but Alice can’t come along because of “reasons”. He convinces Angela to lie to her, which she does, telling Alice that she will be back soon, but not to worry because she had a dream that Alice would be safe in the camp. Later at a diner, Deveaux and Angela dance but the owner tells them to stop because they don't allow white and coloreds together. Deveuax tells him and the other diner patrons to pretend like nothing happened, and they all follow his instructions and go back to what they were doing. Angela suddenly remembers that Alice needs… socks… and they have to get back to her.

In the present, Mohinder and Peter share a moment, with Mohinder telling Peter that perhaps a new Company with him involved would work better, because he never knew the pain and fear that his mother’s company had to deal with. Nathan and Bennet talk about how they made a mess of things, while Claire talks with them about wanting to get back to a normal life again.

Angela awakens in Alice’s makeshift home and the two talk, with Alice revealing what happened in the past. Suresh had come for Alice and when he tried to use a needle on her, she panicked, which resulted in a guard having to restrain her, causing her powers to activate and the weather start to go wild, with lightning crashing through the door as she makes her escape. Suresh catches up to Alice and slaps her, trying to bring her out of her panic, but her father sees this and grabs Alice away, blasting at Suresh with a power of his own before he is shot by the soldiers. Alice escapes under a building while a wild storm decimates everything around her. She tells Angela she waited here, thinking that everyone would be safe from her if she did so. Angela tells her it’s time to go home together, that she has socks for her, something she would steal throughout her life to remind her that there are simple ways to protect the ones they love. She then apologizes for lying to her, which is a revelation to Alice, not realizing that her sister had even lied, which sets her off and has her conjuring another huge storm as the rest of the family finds the two together. Mohinder tries to get Alice to stop but he reminds her too much of his father and lashes out against him. It isn’t until Angela tells Alice that Peter is family and to not punish him for her mistakes. Alice stops the storm, but refuses to go with her, leaving and disappearing outside. 

They search for Alice but to no avail. Peter readies himself to leave with the others, but Mohinder says he is staying to find out what happened here with his father, having gained a movie reel of lab work done from Bennet earlier. At the diner, the Petrellis and Bennets discuss a new Company with Peter setting some ground rules. Nathan decides to head back to Washington to try and clear things up as best he can but as they look at the TV they see Nathan himself already doing so as Bennet reveals that it is Sylar.

Back-issues:

Edwin Hodge played young Deveaux. He’s best known for recently playing Agent Ray Cannon in the last three seasons of FBI: Most Wanted, and as a lead in the movie Parallel (follows the journey of Vanessa, a grief-stricken woman who mysteriously finds herself navigating between parallel spaces). He was a supporting cast member in the one season drama Good Sam (follows a talented yet stifled surgeon who embraces her leadership role after her renowned and pompous boss falls into a coma), Six (Navy SEAL Team Six attempt to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan when they discover an American citizen working with the enemy), and Jack & Bobby (the early life of Bobby McCallister, a progressive President of the United States from 2041 to 2049, is explored).

Chandra Suresh was played by Ravi Kapoor. He has a lot of small credits, but in Crossing Jordan he played a recurring character, Dr. Mahesh Bug Vijay (or Vijayaraghavensatanaryanamurthy) Brash, stubborn and resourceful ME Jordan Cavanaugh revives her career in Boston, occasionally breaking the rules and ticking off the cops or her co-workers. On the home front, she gets crime-solving help from her retired-cop dad). He was also in Gideon’s Crossing (Chief of experimental medicine at a prestigious hospital uses unorthodox healing methods on critically ill patients. Skilled healer mentors young doctors while treating patients).

Adult Alice was played by Diana Scarwid, best known for Psycho III where she played Maureen. She had a main cast role in Rumblefish, a movie written by SE Hinton of Outsiders’ fame (absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare). She was also a lead in Mommie Dearest (the abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted). She’s been a main supporting cast member in many movies such as Silkwood (a worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant), What Lies Beneath (the wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind), and Truman (though considered unqualified, Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president following the April 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt). She’s been in various cameo roles over the years such as Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, LOST, Criminal Minds, Pushing Daisies, Prison Break, and The X-Files, to name a few. She also had a main role in the series Wonderfalls (24-year-old loner B.A. Jaye lives in a trailer park and sells souvenirs in Niagara Falls. Animal figurines and dolls speak to her and force her to interact with people and try to help them).

Young Alice was played by Laura Marano, who did quite a bit of acting in her youth, mostly in Disney type shows, like Austin & Ally (following the lives of confident aspiring musician Austin, quiet talented songwriter Ally, and their two friends). She was a lead in the movies Saving Zoe (the high school freshman kid sister of the murdered Zoë finds her diary, which sheds new light on the murder missed by the police. She investigates), The Perfect Date (to save up for college, Brooks Rattigan creates an app where anyone can pay him to play the perfect stand-in boyfriend for any occasion), Netflix’s The Royal Treatment (New York hairdresser Izzy seizes the chance to work at the wedding of a charming prince, but when sparks between them fly, will love or duty prevail?), and Robert DeNiro’s The War With Grandpa (Upset that he has to share the room he loves with his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back). She’s managed to take her musical ability (as seen in Austin & Ally) into a full fledged singing career, putting out some albums and music videos. 

https://www.youtube.com/@LauraMaranoOfficial/videos

Young Angela was played by Alexa Nikolas. She had most of her roles as a child actor in various dramas and sitcoms. She was notably in Hidden Hills (a sitcom about life in the suburbs), and a Nickelodeon sitcom called Zoey 101 (Zoey Brooks and her brother Dustin attend their first day at Pacific Coast Academy, a private boarding school that is enrolling girls for the first time in its history).

Heroes EU:

Scenic Route

West and Alex need Mr Bennet's help.

Exodus

Rachel's coming out party.

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RW630 - Flesh + Blood

 

In this episode of the ongoing Random Rutger Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan rob from the rich and keep for themselves as they discuss Flesh + Blood.

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Our favourite Trivia:

Rutger Hauer’s initial fortunes were shaped by Paul Verhoeven, who cast him in the TVseries Floris (1969), and the features Turkish Delight (1973), Keetje Tippel (1975), Soldier of Orange (1977) and Spetters (1980). But they fell out making Flesh+Blood (1985) in Hollywood.

Rutger didn’t want to do the film after his success in Blade Runner and Nighthawks however he signed up before those films were released and was forced to do it. He frequently argued with Verhoeven and insisted that Martin be a more sympathetic character, as he didn’t want to be typecast as a villain. They would swear at each other constantly in Dutch, prompting the crew to insist that they argue in English.

Verhoeven wanted this to be a film about a feud between Martin and Hawkwood, however the studio insisted on a romantic story. Verhoeven regrets changing the story.

Verhoeven wanted to portray medieval times as they were, with a moral gray area for his characters.

The film was shot in Spain where the weather messed up the shoot thanks to heavy rain, snow and wind.

The cast renamed the film Flesh+Blood+Elbows because Verhoeven didn’t storyboard the film, so the cast ended up elbowing each other out of frames to try and get more screen time.

The creator of Bezerk modeled the character of Guts on Martin.

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RW629 - Heroes Rewatch S03E20-21 - Snap Asylum

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom are babysitting but drink heavily as they discuss season 3 episodes 20 & 21, Cold Snap and Into Asylum.

Chapter Seven 'Cold Snap':

Volume: Four

Written by: Bryan Fuller

Directed by: Greg Yaitanes

Original airdate: March 23, 2009

 

Synopsis: 

Danko awakens to find Eric Doyle, drugged, gift wrapped and left hanging in his apartment with a tag that says “My gift to you.” 

Bennet meanwhile, meets with Angela in her limo, telling him he needs to give up Rebel so Danko will continue to trust him. She plans to leave the city and he warns her not to go home.

Angela has a short vision that her driver is attacked and wakes up to tell him to keep driving, but the scene plays out as she foresaw. Luckily, she gets out of the car before the agents can find her. She meets with an old friend Millie, and manages to get some cash from her. As Angela walks away, she sees agents coming and heads into a building and onto an elevator. The agents hack into the controls and start bringing the elevator back down, but Peter flies down the elevator shaft and rescues her, taking her away.

Mohinder is led by Danko into the holding facility where they have a number of people with abilities, sedated on tables. Seeing Daphne there, Mohidner asks how he is expected to save her in this facility, before Danko drugs him and places him on a table as well.

Bennet talks to Danko after seeing a captured Doyle and suggests that they let Tracy escape in order to get her to lead them to Rebel. Danko reluctantly agrees and when Tracy escapes, she ends up saving Mohinder and Matt as well. They grab Daphne and escape with Matt using his powers to have them all out easily unseen. 

Once out, Tracy goes her own way and finds herself trying to get new clothes in a store, but Bennet finds her, telling her he will let her go if she leads him to Rebel and she agrees. As she leaves, she gets an ATM message just for her from Rebel with where to go next. When she shows up in the train station, she is approached by Micah who reveals he is Rebel and hoping they can travel together and continue helping others. She reveals that she was using him as bait which hurts him terribly, as he thought he knew her from her books and because she resembles his mother. Together the two escape into the parking lot but agents show up. She tells him to tell the fire alarms to turn the water sprinklers on, warning him to run ahead of the ice. Tracy turns her power up to full and freezes everyone in the lot, including herself as Micah escapes. Danko approaches the frozen Tracy and shoots her, causing her to splinter into shards. As Bennet looks on, Tracy’s frozen visage on the floor shows her eye, winking at Bennet as they leave. 

 

Meanwhile, Hiro and Ando find out that the baby is actually Matt Parkman’s son and has the power to turn things on and off regardless of their connection to power, earning him the nickname Toddler Touch and Go. Hiro tells Ando why he seems distant to the baby, explaining how he met his mother on his trip to the past and how she died in his arms. When Janice suddenly returns home, Hiro and Ando try hiding but she easily finds them, questioning them. They explain who they are and that her baby has a power as well, which she reveals started during the last eclipse. Ando tells her that there are people after them and her baby because they have powers, and she tries to distract the agents as they knock on her door. Ando manages to start to use his powers defensively, but is quickly overcome. As Hiro holds Toddler Touch and Go, he touches him and suddenly Hiro can stop time again. He gathers the baby and Ando together and tries to teleport, but finds that he can’t. Instead he grabs a wheelbarrow and carries the baby and Ando safely, 12 miles away. 

At a hospital, Matt and Mohinder take Daphne in, concocting a story about her being his wife Janice who was hurt on a hunting trip. The doctor is required to report shootings to the police but Matt uses his powers to convince the doctor that it was clearly an accident. Later, recovering in her hospital room under the alias Gwen Stefani, Daphne wakes up healed, but is bothered that Matt inserted her into his ex-wife’s life by using her name and tells him she’s leaving. Matt finds her later, having used her powers to run across the ocean to Paris. When she wonders how he got there so fast, he explains he flew, showing her his new ability. They talk and hug and he takes her on a flight around Paris like she never has before but as they do she figures out that she isn’t actually there but still in her hospital bed, hanging on to her life and that Matt is in her head trying to give her the storybook ending that she deserves. She asks him to let her go, and we see Matt sitting beside her bed in the hospital as her heart gives out and she dies. 

Back-issues:

Milie was played by Swoozie Kurtz, known for her many television and movie roles. One of her first big successes was a series called Love, Sidney with Tony Randall (a middle-aged gay artist shares his New York apartment with a single mother and her little girl). She appeared as a supporting character in Against All Odds (a gangster hires an ex-football player to find his estranged girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love and things get complicated), Michael J. Fox’s Bright Lights Big City (a disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife), Reality Bites (a documentary filmmaker and her fellow Generation X graduates face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston), Jim Carrey’s Liar Liar (a pathological liar-lawyer finds his career turned upside down when he inexplicably cannot physically lie for 24 whole hours), Harvey (an unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd, a mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see), and even had a part in Cruel Intentions (two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster's daughter before the start of term). She was a main cast member of Love & Money, a short lived sitcom (the penthouse residing Conklin family of socialites and the basement dwelling McBride family of maintenance men find themselves unhappily linked when the heiress daughter and blue collar son fall in love), as well as Pushing Daisies (a pastry chef with the power to bring dead people back to life solves murder mysteries with his resurrected childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress). Her longest roles were as the mother, Joyce Flynn, in the sitcom Mike and Molly (a couple meets at an Overeaters' Anonymous meeting), and Sheila in Call Me Kat (a 39-year-old woman decides to use the money her parents had been saving for her wedding to open a cat-themed cafe, starring Mayim Bialik and the late Leslie Jordan).

Chapter Eight 'Into Asylum':

Volume: Four

Written by: Joe Pokaski

Directed by: Jim Chory

Original airdate: March 30, 2009

 

Synopsis: 

Nathan takes Claire to Mexico in order to hide out. They have just enough money for an overnight stay but Claire sells a necklace her dad gave her in order to get more money, which Nathan decides to try and grow by participating in a drinking game with some visiting college boys. Unfortunately, Nathan is not able to keep and passes out, while Claire asks them for a rematch, and hurriedly begins drinking to catch up. Due to her ability however, she doesn’t actually get drunk and just acts that way until the competition is down and out. Gathering the money, she gets Nathan back to their room where he apologizes for what he’s done, explaining how he tried to win her over by giving a free pass, regretting how he has acted towards her in the past. In the morning, Nathan reveals that he doesn’t have connections anymore but she tells him that she thought he was amazing when they first met, and still feels that he could do anything. The two part, but Nathan finds her ready to leave town and reveals he has pawned his watch to buy back her sold necklace and the two decide to go back to the states together.

Peter and Angela end up at a church where Angela feels she is supposed to be, going inside and praying, telling Peter she always found peace here due to their family’s history in it. They have several heart to heart moments as Angela tries to patch their relationship back up. Peter prays to God, asking him to show up and help them somehow. He is interrupted when agents arrive and start searching the church. They hide in the confessionals, only to be found by Bennet who tells his men that everything is all clear, and they all leave. Angela finally sleeps and awakens to tell Peter she had a dream and knows what they need to do next, find Nathan and Claire and go see her sister. 

Danko finds a number of his agents killed, the killer unknown, baffling him and Bennet. Sylar appears in Danko’s rear car seat and tells him that he is interested in finding the killer and suggests they work together. Danko is suspicious and pulls a gun on him, but Sylar has already disappeared. Back at Building 26, Danko gives Bennet the assignment to find Angela Petrelli, while an agent thanks him for his inspirational speech earlier. He then sees a package in his office and takes a call from Sylar, who tells him there is a third body that he just found, the head of which is in the box, and reveals that the man they are looking for is a shapeshifter.  Danko realizes the agent that was just in his office is the killer and he gives chase, but the man ends up using his shapeshifting powers to turn into a janitor and escapes onto the street. 

Danko gets the jump on Sylar when he goes to search the shapeshifter’s home, but Sylar and Danko spar verbally, with Danko finally giving in, when Sylar explains that he is just one picture on his list of suspects. Together, the two begin looking for answers to where he could be and determine he is looking for positions of power, and track him to a local nightclub. They find the shapeshifter easily as he is impersonating Danko himself. They give chase but he has already disappeared into the crowd. Danko and Sylar regroup as Danko says he lost him and they should leave. As they do so, Sylar pulls out a gun and goes to shoot Danko, but Danko whirls around and shoots him first, revealing that the shapeshifter was pretending to be Sylar. Danko tells Sylar the shapeshifter is still alive, but to do what he does without his typical method of killing his victims. Outside on the street, Danko shows Bennet Sylar’s body in a bodybag as he leaves with another agent. In Danko’s car, the female agent suddenly shifts into Sylar.

Back-issues:

Jake McLaughlin played the guy Claire was drinking under the bar (Sligo). He’s best known for his roles in Will Trent (Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate), and Quantico (a look at the lives of young FBI recruits training at the Quantico base in Virginia when one of them is suspected of being a sleeper terrorist). He was a supporting cast member in Crash (starring Dennis Hopper and Eric Roberts, it’s a spin-off of the Oscar-winning film about racial tensions in Los Angeles.) He also led the series Believe (a relationship forms between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power). He was a supporting cast member in Another Time, starring Justin Hartley and James Kyson (just because a journey leads you somewhere you didn't expect, doesn't mean you ended up in the wrong place). He’s been in several movies as a lead, such as Home (an ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past), and Last Night On Earth (faced with impending doom from a planet-killing asteroid, a couple flee to the hills of Tennessee to spend their last days together - but the chaotic breakdown of society disrupts their peaceful plans). 

Agent Jenkins (temporarily a shapeshifter) was played by Kevin Alejandro, best known for his role of Dan Espinoza in Lucifer (Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles - the City of Angels). He was also a lead in the series The Returned (a small town's residents are stunned when recently deceased locals begin returning from the dead. What should be a miracle soon becomes a nightmare), and recently a lead in Fire Country (a young convict joins a firefighting program looking for redemption and a shortened prison sentence. He and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region). He was Brother Blood in Arrow, and has made guest appearances in True Blood, Golden Boy, Ugly Betty, Shark, and Southland.

Featured songs - 

Runaway by Del Shannon:

We’ve Gotta Get Out of This Place by The Animals:

Heroes EU:

Hanging by a Thread
On the trail of a slippery special, Rachel's truth slips out.

Baby Pow(d)er
Hiro and Ando get their first parenting experience.

Cog
In his final hours on the job, Agent Jenkins meets his match.

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